1. Julian Baggini is co-founder of The Philosophers' Magazine, and has written for numerous international newspapers and magazines.
12 Facts About Julian Baggini
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Julian Baggini is a patron of Humanists UK, an organization promoting secular humanism.
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Julian Baggini grew up in Kent and was educated at the Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone, from 1980 until 1987.
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Julian Baggini later attended Reading University and gained a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1990.
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Julian Baggini is an honorary graduate and honorary research fellow of the University of Kent's department of philosophy.
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In 1997 Julian Baggini co-founded The Philosophers' Magazine with Jeremy Stangroom.
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In 2009 Julian Baggini was philosopher-in-residence at Wellington College, a public school in Berkshire.
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Julian Baggini is a regular columnist for The Guardian newspaper, Prospect magazine, Financial Times and a columnist and book reviewer for The Wall Street Journal.
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Julian Baggini has written for New Humanist magazine, The Week, New Statesman, New York Times and Literary Review.
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Julian Baggini speaks regularly at conferences and schools and has frequently spoken out about living without religion, against the teaching in schools of creationism, a loss of reason, which he asserts is "an enemy of mystery and ambiguity," and the benefits of secular education.
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In 2019 Julian Baggini was named academic director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
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Julian Baggini is a member of the British trade union the Society of Authors and appears in two novels by Alexander McCall Smith in The Sunday Philosophy Club Series.